Poems, Songs and Love-Verses upon several Subjects. By Matthew Coppinger |
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On Parson Andrew's, Parazitical Sermon to Mr. Evans, Mayor of Shaston.
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On Parson Andrew's, Parazitical Sermon to Mr. Evans, Mayor of Shaston.
Where is this Boanerges, that dares batterThe Churches Faith, and in a Pulpit flatter?
VVho fears not both in Sermon and in Prayer
For to delude Our Worshipful the Mayor,
And make the People think, if he were able,
That he in all things is Infallible?
Let him do what he will, it does appear,
He must be one of Gods Vicegerents here.
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Must both believe in Mayor and Aldermen,
And add it to your Creed; and then you may
Say Mass, and to the Fur-gown'd Idol Pray:
And thus he puts a slur upon the Nation,
And brings it off. This Ancient Corporation.
This ancient Corporation's not so blind,
But see the VVallet of his faults behind;
And hold it for a true and Christian Canon,
The Parson cannot serve his God and Mammon:
But Andrew's sham-Apostle thought in Meter
Something to say in praise of Simon Peter.
Nor will his Plea excuse him, though he say,
'Tis Oratoria licentia.
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